Trash in piles, it's the fashion of the dayWhere's it go? They say they don't know, maybe it flies awayThough I say it finds a flow when we send it down the wayand through that flow it meets the ocean at its do'Piles and piles traveling thousands of mileswhile the perpetrators live it out in denial

If the trash just vanished it would be terrificBut it encounters a fate much less psuedo-scientificCaught by a whirl in the PacificIt swirls until it sinks like the TitanicWhere it too rests on the oceans floorPreserved by the darkness, forevermore

Great poem! It pains me to think about anyone dumping our garbage in the ocean, although it is likely to happen if it isn't already. The TVs and computer monitors that are piling up now are especially scary though, because of the highly toxic chemicals in certain components.

The combination of playfulness with a serious message is delightful. What are we going to do with all our e-waste? Moore's law predicts that the latest thing will become obsolete at an exponentially increasing rate, making its useful life less and less with each technologgical advance. The madness has to stop sometime soon - most of us are killing ourseves trying to keep up already.

Thank you rumorsofrhyme. :) I am trying to do my part by not upgrading my electronics. I've had the same TV for nearly 15 years. I hope they invent a more environmentally responsible product before I upgrade because I'm going to feel bad about sending this one to the "recycle" pile knowing it can't really be recycled.

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